“Kelly folds a loving portrait of rural Dorset and a well-made whodunit into a painstaking account of the grief and unimaginable pain that follow in the wake of one child's murder.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“[Supplies] fashionable existential dread while also providing a solid, Agatha Christie- or Dorothy Sayers-like mystery plot that proceeds at a deliberate pace through a cloud of plausible suspects with a minimum of confusion…Superior entertainment.” —The New York Times

“A gripping portrait of small-town paranoia.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Striking…When mysteries work as effectively as this one, they offer a safe outlet for our gnawing rage to understand--that detective's compulsion to cajole the truth out of the civilized world, no matter what gets destroyed.” —The New Yorker

“Beautiful…what's great about Broadchurch is not that, in the end, it lets you know everything. It's that it makes you feel everything.” —Time

“Striking.” —Variety

“Exceptionally striking…[Broadchurch] will break your heart and keep you guessing all the way through.” —The Washington Post

“It's not just that Broadchurch demonstrates that it is possible to reinvigorate…the hunt-for-a-killer genre with solid, engaging craftsmanship--though it does--but that unlike so many in the genre it is inordinately emotionally generous.” —Slate