"Any lingering hope of justice has now apparently gone. In the meantime, we can read this superb work of social history, in all its gritty actuality." Ian Thomson, author The Dead Yard, Review in The Spectator.
"By juxtaposing the present rom-com property porn incarnation of the area with the seedy dangerous slum of the late 50s, Mark Olden has come up with the best book about Notting Hill since the Colin MacInnes' classic [Absolute Beginners]." Tom Vague, author Rachman, Riots and Rillington Place.
"Olden recounts poignant journeys to visit old men eking out their pensions in sad decrepitude, reminiscing about the good old days of criminal gangstership, and, finally, revealing to him Notting Hill's 'worst kept secret', the identity of the murderer." Steven Poole, Review in The Guardian.
"Compelling." Harmit Athwal, Review Institute of Race Relations.
"TV producer and journalist Mark Olden undertook the arduous task of trying to do what the police failed to - discover the truth about [Kelso Cochrane's] killing. His book is an unputdownable investigation, and, like a good detective story, pursues a riveting forensic trail." John Green, Review in The Morning Star
"Splendid." Alan Johnson, former Home Secretary, author This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood.
"Some crimes echo down over the years, not just because of the pain or death they cause, but because of the social wounds and patterns of injustice they reveal. This murder is one. Mark Olden has done a fine job of combining investigative reporting and suspenseful storytelling about a crime whose legacy has not gone away." Adam Hochschild, author, King Leopold's Ghost.
"Mark Olden's meticulously researched Murder in Notting Hill unravelled the dense web of racism in which for many years the entire event - the assault [of Kelso Cochrane] - and its long aftermath - had been enveloped." Professor Stuart Hall, writing in a Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands.
