Quite Ugly One Morning
Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally...
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Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell?
A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited.
źródło opisu: Little, Brown Book Group
źródło okładki: Little, Brown Book Group
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780349108858
Publish date: 1997 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Crime,
Scotland,
Fiction
Not my usual thing (a little too much foul language and general grossness for my taste), but surprisingly I did enjoy it - mainly, I think, because I liked the main characters.
Warning. This review might offend easily offended people.This is the book where Brookmyre has a graphic description of a turd early on, which I thought was rather unnecessary, but what would I know? More people read his books than my reviews. For now, anyway.So, last night while partaking of tea at ...
Not as good I thought it would be. But probably because it is a bottom of the bin bargin book with a dozen of pages yellowed, that I didn't enjoy it as much.OK. Disgusting murder scence, and to find out why this person is killed. I have guessed correctly half way through the book on the linked to mo...
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