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Scottish BookQuite Ugly One Morning: This is story of murder, corruption and sin (Paperback)
Author: Chris Brookmyre
£10.95
ScotlandSet in EdinburghNoir CrimeUrban Gritty
Quite Ugly One Morning follows journalist Jack Parlabane as a grotesque murder in Edinburgh reveals corruption, shocking violence and dark satire while he races to uncover the truth. Sharp dialogue, wicked humour and gritty investigation define this debut thriller. This book is for readers who enjoy clever crime fiction with biting wit and relentless pace.
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Booksellers Notes
Quite Ugly One Morning is a blisteringly funny debut we loved for its anarchic energy, savage satire, and refusal to separate laughs from righteous anger.
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It begins, as many stories do, with a body. This one belongs to a member of a respected Edinburgh medical family, found in circumstances that are difficult to explain and harder to ignore. The scene is disturbing, the details unsettling, and the questions refuse to settle.
Jack Parlabane is a journalist more accustomed to scepticism than reverence, and he is not inclined to look away. As he follows the trail, he moves through a city where reputation carries weight and corruption is carefully disguised. The case draws him into places where respectability thins and moral certainty is a liability.
This is crime fiction with a sharp eye for power and pretence, attentive to the uneasy overlap between public virtue and private vice. Set against an Edinburgh that is both familiar and faintly grotesque, it introduces a protagonist shaped as much by curiosity as by refusal to accept what he is told.
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