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epub | 7.65 MB | English| Isbn:9780802193858 | Author: Christopher Brookmyre | Year: 1996
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Quote:The award-winning first Parlabane thriller mixes paranoia and politics for "a lean, nasty, fun little page-turner" about a powerful Scottish scion's murder (The New York Times).Category:Mystery & Thrillers, Fiction, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction, Detective Fiction, Other Mystery Categories, European Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, Detective Fiction - Journalists, Humorous Mysteries & Crime Capers, Scots - Fiction
Investigative journalist Jack Parlabane has visited plenty of crime scenes, but whoever carved up Dr. Jeremy Ponsonby wanted to send a particularly revolting message. As jet-lagged, hungover, and nauseated as he may be, Parlabane knows this was no break-in gone wrong. Dr. Sarah Slaughter, anaesthetist and ex-wife of the victim, is beginning to believe it, too. Ponsonby had plenty of secrets, but the motivations for her ex-husband's murder cut even deeper than they can imagine.
Are Parlabane and Slaughter a match for the skullduggery? It depends on how much more of the black morals and full-color bloodshed of the Edinburgh medical society they can stomach in this "thrillingly unpleasant" winner of the First Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel of the Year ( Esquire).