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Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre


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Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre

 
Description: ISBN 0349108854 / Author: Christopher Brookmyre / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. ... more
Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre ... 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.

Newest Review: ... a little too hot for his liking and I do not mean the weather, and after waking up hungover he leaves his flat to investigate ... more

 ... a strange smell only to get himself locked out. He also notices a police prescence and it turns out that the smell is due to a mutilated corpse in the flat below and a rather disgusting crime scene. For reasons of his own he wants to avoid the police but only succeeds in becomming the prime suspect in the investigation. Soon released he begins to meddle in the case, his natural journalistic nosiness getting the better of him. I did love this book, it is a wonderfully balck comedy thriller that has some excellent ...more

calypte
Crowned Review Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre: Getting sick in Edinburgh - don't! (886 words)
by - written on 31/12/05 (Very useful, 598 readings)
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Jack Parlabane is about to have a Very Bad Day. First he wakes up with the hangover from hell - and where _is_ that smell of puke coming from? As he goes to investigate, he's drawn out onto the landing to see why there are a squad of 'polismen' outside of the downstairs flat. Click. That would be the door locking Parlabane out of his current residence, and in just his boxer shorts. Maybe it's the hangover stopping him from thinking straight, maybe it's the fact that he's an investigative journalist and the smell of puke can't totally distract our hero from the scent of a story... but somehow it seems like such a good idea at the time to slip past ...  Read the complete review

samueltyler
Premium Review You U.G.L.Y. You Don't Need No Alibi (936 words)
by - written on 30/04/08 (Very useful, 89 readings)
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British politics is used as a beacon across the globe of a system of purity and genuine democracy. Every person over 18 is given the vote and is allowed to choose whatever party they like. However, is it really all fair play? British politics is more about who knows who and insider deals. Do you think you rise to the top on your own merits? You need to promise many favours if you are going to get any power. British politics is as inefficient and dodgy as many other countries it's just that we choose to not worry. The amount of power we give the ruling party is the envy of many a country, including the United States. How can someone highlight the hypocrisy that is ...  Read the complete review

The+Duke
Premium Review Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre: Sick and twisted. (643 words)
by - written on 29/05/06 (Very useful, 100 readings)
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Jack Parlabane, a Glaswegian investigative journalist with a bit of a reputation of skirting the law in pursuit of a story has just returned home to Scotland from America. Kipping over at a mate's place in Edinburgh, he awakens in the morning with the smell of vomit (not his own) filling his nostrils and a general feeling of being unwell that can only be attained through binge drinking. Tracing the rather obnoxious odour, Parlabane finds himself locked out of his own flat, dressed only in his boxer shorts with various members of the law enforcement community milling around a flat on the floor below. Parlabane's, perhaps unwise, decision to tiptoe ...  Read the complete review

fuzzybear
Premium Review Vomit, decapitation and poo, welcome to Scotland (228 words)
by - written on 20/11/08 (Very useful, 80 readings)
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Written by Christopher Brookmyre this book features one of his best known characters Jack Parlablane an Edinburgh journalist and a man who has a habit of getting into trouble. Jack has recently returned from Los Angeles after things got a little too hot for his liking and I do not mean the weather, and after waking up hungover he leaves his flat to investigate a strange smell only to get himself locked out. He also notices a police prescence and it turns out that the smell is due to a mutilated corpse in the flat below and a rather disgusting crime scene. For reasons of his own he wants to avoid the police but only succeeds in becomming the prime suspect in ...  Read the complete review

freediveheaven
Premium Review Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre: My One Night Stands (507 words)
by - written on 09/06/05 (Very useful, 83 readings)
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I have had a bad run of late with my choice of books and have been let down by some of my favorite authors churning out sub standard books so I felt it time to branch out and try something new. When I saw the title of this book I thought it might be a review of one night stands after the beer goggles have been removed but the back cover confirmed that it was the type of story I would enjoy with some good reviews so I took the plunge. The Story Inspector McGregor is not having a good day after wading through a large pool of vomit he is greeted by a mutilated corpse with missing fingers in a pool of blood, a vile smell from an additional deposit of ...  Read the complete review

 

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