Reviews

"LORD...
... confidently reflects women's realities within the generic confines of the private eye novel with a compassion that puts her in the international front rank of female crime writers. "
Graham Blundell - The Australian April 07

FORTRESS
May invite comparison with 'Lord of the Flies' but Gabrielle Lord’s story is very much her own with a climax readers will find difficult to forget.
Pittsburg P.A. Press August 81

...raises the reader's nerves to screaming pitch. This uncompromisingly violent thriller rushes to a sardonic and shocking conclusion.
USA Publishers Weekly January 81

TOOTH AND CLAW
A taut thriller set in an isolated smallholding ...the novel builds to a shattering, thoroughly consistent climax. Too many elements perhaps, but expertly meshed in her plot...
Times Literary Supplement 2 September 83

JUMBO
A born writer in the tradition of Graham Greene...
SMH November 87

A spare and taut narrative which holds the attention...
Canberrra Times 28 November 97

SALT
...the novel varies between close humanist detail and whirling cartoon-like adventure... strange stuff ...like Disneyland Patrick White or sadomasochistic Superman. Lord owes allegiance to no person and no gender; she just operates as a writer of power...(and) passion...
SMH September 90

WHIPPING BOY
Lord's skill as a writer enables her to transcend the constraints of the genre and deliver not just another crime yarn but a magnificent novel with crime at its core.
SMH August 1992

BONES
Insightful and provocative...
Sun Herald, Sydney 26 March 96

...a compulsively readable thriller with a potent social message, confirming her as one of our best storytellers.

THE SHARP END
Forget the comparisons to Patricia Cornwall on the front cover. Lord is a far better writer and The Sharp End easily outshines (Cornwall)... Canberra Times 20 June 1998 all the energy and blackness of her previous novels. Stay up late and read it in a sitting.
Sunday Telegraph 14 June 98

FEEDING THE DEMONS
...a complex, masterfully paced story... not for the faint-hearted... this hardened reviewer found himself turning all the house lights on as he sat late into the night reading the final 50 pages... astonishingly powerful and crafted.
SMH 11 September 99

DEATH DELIGHTS
...will have readers on the edge of their seats... Lord is the master of the psychological thriller and is one of Australia's most successful authors.
Country News 22 October 2001

BABY DID A BAD BAD THING
...separate investigations and multiple plots (are brought together) in an explosive finish with such skill you are never required to suspend your disbelief.
Weekend Australian 7 August 2002

If you like hot action, intrigue and a non-stop storyline, you cannot go past Gabrielle Lord. She is a real winner!
South Burnett Times

SPIKING THE GIRL
Gabrielle's clever, suspense-laden plot is laced with echoes of the world in which we live, where teenagers are easily lost, parents often absent and our idols have feet of clay.
Australian Women's Weekly 2004

And finally, this wonderful comment from Peter Craven writing in the Sunday Age regarding Whipping Boy:
Gabrielle Lord has the option of becoming a master storyteller who can put real faces in a fabulistic frame or of becoming another blowsy Antipodean hack — all wind and obviousness.