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A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Christopher Brookmyre

 

Description: ISBN 0349118809 / Author: Christopher Brookmyre / Genre: Crime / Thriller / We could tell you about the bodies. We could tell you their ... more
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Christopher Brookmyre ... names, where they were found, the state they were in. We could tell you about the suspects too, the evidence, the investigators; join a few dots, even throw you a motive. But what would be the point? You're going to make your own assumptions anyway. After all, you know these people, don't you? You went to school with them. We all did. Granted, that was twenty years ago, but how much does anybody really change? Exactly. So if you really knew them then, you'll already have all the answers. If you really knew them then… Put on your uniform and line up in an orderly fashion for the funniest and most accurate trip back to the classroom you are likely to read, as well as a murder mystery like nothing that has gone before it. Forget the forensics: only once you've been through school with this painfully believable cast of characters will you be equipped to work out what really happened decades later. Even then, you'll probably guess wrong and be made to stand in the corner.

Newest Review: ... histories for his characters to shed light on their actions in the book. The idea of characters unable to let go of their ... more

 ... schooldays was previously explored in 'One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night' where a school reunion erupts into violence, but the police investigation provides an opportunity for much more detailed probing of the characters. There are very few writers who could hide a clue to a murder in an account of the day the smelly 7 year old did a poo in a school corridor. As I'm not a particular fan of crime writing, my main interest here was in the accounts of the schools. Although this class seemed a bit rougher than my sc...more

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andrewl
Premium Review A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Christopher Brookmyre: Christopher Brookmyre's Schooldays (693 words)
by andrewl - written on 13.07.07 (Very useful, 61 readings)
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I'm not a big fan of crime novels, but with Jasper Fforde and Christopher Brookmyre making such consistently brilliant efforts at subverting the genre, my resistance is being eroded fairly swiftly. Christopher Brookmyre has established a formidable reputation for Scottish crime thrillers. Full of bodily fluids and lurid characters, they're generally hilarious to read, but shot through with such extreme violence that there's no chance of them ever being left in the 'humour' section. A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil is told entirely in the present tense, and follows two linked story strands - the progress through school of a group of ...

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by kenjohn - written on 16.12.06 (Very useful, 286 readings)
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~ ~ I’ve been a fan of the Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre ever since I read one of his early books “Boiling A Frog” a few years back. His irreverent style of writing and his constant use of Scots vernacular in his prose appeals to me, although how someone not schooled in the intricacies of Scottish slang ever manages to wade their way through one of his books is as much a mystery as some of the crime/comedy novelist’s yarns. (Hence my title) ~ ~ Brookmyre has been feted as one of the UK’s finest novelists ever since his first novel, “Quite Ugly One Morning” (1996) won the “Critics' First Blood Award” for “Best First Crime Novel of the Year”. He followed ...

 
 
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