Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre

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

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

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

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

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