"The Carnivore is one of those rare literate books that cares enough about the reader to provide a plot . . . In the physicality of his writing, Sinnett is very much Canadian. This is a novel of primal elements: water, blood and mud. But as a storyteller, the Oxford-born writer is a Brit through and through, doling out information on a need-to-know basis that keeps us reading and learning more and more about his despicably fascinating characters. Sinnett has made an original, terrifying portrait of Toronto's soul."