In "Brit Noir", Barry Forshaw said: “He is one of the UK’s premier crime fiction anthologists, as well as being a noted expert on the Golden Age...Edwards’ own two crime fiction series...have proved to be both critically and commercially successful...such books as "Yesterday’s Papers" offer both the diversions of crime fiction and scene-setting of a high order... "The Dungeon House", the most recent in the Lake District series at the time of writing, sports Edwards' usual expertise." In "Crime Fiction: a Reader’s Guide", Forshaw said that "Gallows Court" ‘pays homage to the legacy of vintage thrillers but introduces an urgency and sense of dark menace that are notably contemporary…Evocative period detail, twist-packed plotting and a fascinatingly enigmatic anti-heroine’.