"A great read. Coffin knows. police investigations from his days as a former detective for the Portland Police Department. He also knows how to craft a tightly spun tale." -- Portland Press Herald "Terrific! Fast-talking, smart, and cinematic, this entertaining page-turner is so knowingly authentic only a genuine cop turned storyteller could have written it." -- Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author "Reading Bruce Coffin is like going on a 300-page ride-along with some very tough and likeable cops. Beneath the Depths is one of the best police procedurals I've read in years--a road map of a city filled with good guys and bad guys, drawn painstakingly by an author who knows these streets as only an ex-cop can." -- Gerry Boyle, author of Straw Man "This incredible mystery is as intricate as a finely woven tapestry.

[Coffin] makes contemporary mystery writers like James Patterson and Tom Clancy seem slow and contrived." -- Journal Tribune "When a lawyer who's already antagonized half the people in Maine winds up dead, every pine tree in Portland seems chock-full of suspects. A sturdy, starchy police procedural." -- Kirkus Reviews "Wonderful. I enjoyed Coffin's first novel, Among the Shadows, and his new novel is even better." -- George's Outdoor News "[Coffin's] clever police procedural mysteries ring true in color, atmosphere and authenticity. A talented mystery writer [who] knows just when to drop enticing but subtle clues for the reader. Detective Sergeant Byron is a complex character.

" -- CentralMaine.com.