"An Atlantic voyage. A family at war. A secret worth killing over.
Reporter Jack Parlabane thrives on chasing stories in unlikely places, and where could be less likely than a fan convention on a cruise liner celebrating a contentious Sixties TV series? But unlike the media family exploiting their show's renewed relevance, he's not there to stoke controversy: he's there to solve a murder.
Already in deep water with his employer, Jack desperately needs a win, and solving this decades-old mystery could be it. Problem is, he's in the middle of the Atlantic, and someone onboard has already killed once to keep their secret.
And that's not even the tricky part. No, the tricky part is definitely the dead body locked in a stateroom with him, covered in his blood. Now Jack has to solve two murders, otherwise the only way he's getting off this ship is in handcuffs - or in a body bag.
Quite Ugly One Evening is a zeitgesty locked-room mystery that sees the return of rogue journalist Jack Parlabane thirty years after his first appearance in Quite Ugly One Morning.
Praise for Chris Brookmyre:
'Chris Brookmyre is a genius' Richard Osman
'In the pantheon of great crime writers' Elly Griffiths
'There's nothing he can't do' Mick Herron
'Chris Brookmyre is a storytelling mastermind' Chris Whitaker"
"This is story of murder, corruption and sin. And that's just the hero.
Every great story begins with something unspeakable . . . the first Jack Parlabane thriller, from multi-award-winning author Chris Brookmyre.
Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. 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?
Quite Ugly One Morning is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited, and heralds the arrival of a crime fiction legend, journalist Jack Parlabane.
'A lean, nasty, fun little page-turner'
New York Times
'Brookmyre is always a class act'
The Observer
'A sharp, funny novel'
TLS
'A wicked satire'
Scotsman"
"Oubliez tout ce que vous croyez savoir. Ceci n'est pas un polar comme les autres !
Vous connaissez Penny Coyne. Cette petite vieille dame adorable qui résout les meurtres dans son village écossais autrement paisible, avec une police locale sacrément inefficace. Une femme à l'esprit acéré qui s'habille avec élégance et est toujours prête à boire du thé.
Vous connaissez Johnny Hawke. Détective de la brigade criminelle de Los Angeles, malin, impulsif, coriace. Un vrai dur à cuire toujours en conflit avec son capitaine, mais luttant sans cesse pour la vérité et la justice, à n'importe quel prix.
Contre toute attente, et contrairement aux habitudes, leurs mondes vont se rencontrer après l'assassinat d'un scénariste de Hollywood et une mystérieuse invitation à un mariage. Ces deux personnages vont s'allier à leurs corps défendants pour mener une enquête dangereuse jusqu'au twist final magistral qui laissera le lecteur scotché et stupéfait !
À la croisée d'Agatha Christie et Michael Connelly, Le Miroir brisé est le roman policier le plus imaginatif et le plus divertissant de l'année, une montagne russe de suspense, d'inventivité, d'humour. Un hommage au genre qui ravira tous les amateurs de roman noir.
« Chris Brookmyre est un génie. » - Richard Osman
« Un chef-d'œuvre. Un livre que vous ne pourrez pas lâcher. » - Denise Mina
« Chris Brookmyre est un magicien des mots. Brillant, malin, un régal. » - Ian Rankin
Ce livre audio est interprété par une voix humaine, dans le respect des engagements d'Hardigan."
"8 femmes isolées, un meurtre : un huis clos à la Agatha Christie par l'auteur plébiscité par 1 million de lecteurs au Royaume-Uni. Addictif.
Un groupe de jeunes femmes va enterrer la vie de jeune fille de l'une d'elles sur une île isolée de tout. Elles se sont connues à différentes périodes de leurs vies. Leur séjour s'annonce luxueux et agréable jusqu'au moment où l'une d'elles trébuche sur le cadavre du cuisinier. Les communications avec l'extérieur sont coupées. Et nous découvrons des relations ambigües et plus complexes qu'il n'y paraissait.
Le maître du twist écossais, Chris Brookmyre, reprend un huis clos à la Agatha Christie : 8 femmes isolées dans une résidence de luxe vont devoir faire face à un cadavre et à leur passé. Sur une intrigue classique, Brookmyre renouvelle le genre et tient le lecteur en haleine, comme toujours. Chris Brookmyre est né à Glasgow en 1968. Respecté par ses pairs et par la critique, il est aussi un auteur à succès au Royaume-Uni, la série de ses thrillers a vendu plus de 1 million d'exemplaires. Ses précédents livres sont Sombre avec moi (prix McIlvanney du polar écossais), Les Ombres de la toile, L'Ange déchu et Coupez !
« Chris Brookmyre siège au panthéon des meilleurs écrivains de roman noir. » - Elly Griffiths
« Les livres de Brookmyre sont toujours remarquables et c'est un plaisir de se retrouver entre les mains de l'un de nos meilleurs écrivains de roman noir avec ce nouveau thriller rapide, malin et puissant. » - The Guardian
Ce livre audio est interprété par une voix humaine, dans le respect des engagements d'Hardigan."
"FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW
THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL
You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective. Always in trouble with his captain, always losing partners, but always battling for the truth, whatever it takes.
You know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite bumbling local police. A razor-sharp mind in a Sunday best hat.
Against all the odds, against the usual story, their worlds are about to collide. It starts with a dead writer and a mysterious wedding invitation. It will end with a rabbit hole that goes so deep, Johnny and Penny might just come to question not just whodunnit, but whether they want to know the answer.
A cross-genre hybrid of Agatha Christie and Michael Connelly, The Cracked Mirror is the most imaginative and entertaining crime novel of the year, a genre-splicing rollercoaster with a poignantly emotional heart."
"One hen weekend, seven secrets… but only one worth killing for
Jen’s hen party is going to be out of control…
She’s rented a luxury getaway on its own private island. The helicopter won’t be back for seventy-two hours. They are alone. They think.
As well as Jen, there’s the pop diva and the estranged ex-bandmate, the tennis pro and the fashion guru, the embittered ex-sister-in-law and the mouthy future sister-in-law.
It’s a combustible cocktail, one that takes little time to ignite, and in the midst of the drunken chaos, one of them disappears. Then a message tells them that unless someone confesses her terrible secret to the others, their missing friend will be killed.
Problem is, everybody has a secret. And nobody wants to tell."
"The entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece.
Millie Spark can kill anyone.
A special effects make-up artist, her talent is to create realistic scenes of bloody violence.
Then, one day, she wakes to find her lover dead in her bed.
Twenty-five years later, her sentence for murder served, Millicent is ready to give up on her broken life - until she meets troubled film student and reluctant petty thief Jerry.
Together, they begin to discover that all was not what it seemed on that fateful night . . . and someone doesn't want them to find out why.
Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite Ugly One Morning, which established him as one of Britain's leading crime novelists. His 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. Brookmyre's novels novels have sold more than two million copies in the UK alone.
PRAISE FOR CHRIS BROOKMYRE
'Guaranteed to keep you guessing'
Ian Rankin
'Extremely sophisticated crime'
Sunday Times
'Exceptionally good'
Guardian
'In the pantheon of great crime writers'
Elly Griffiths
'Scales new heights of invention'
Times Literary Supplement
'Brookmyre writes beautifully . . . I was hooked'
Literary Review"
"From Chris Brookmyre, winner of the Theakstons and McIllvanney awards for Black Widow, comes a standalone psychological thriller full of twists, lies and betrayal.
One family, two holidays, one devastating secret. To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs there lurks far darker emotions. Sixteen years earlier, little Niamh Temple died while they were on holiday in Portugal. Now, as Amanda joins the family for a reunion at their seaside villa, she begins to suspect one of them might be hiding something terrible… And suspicion is a dangerous thing.
Praise for the Author: “In the pantheon of great crime writers.” ELLY GRIFFITHS"
"Sam Morpeth is left to fend for her younger sister when their mother goes to prison. But when a stranger begins to blackmail her online, she's drawn her into a trap she may not escape alive. Reporter, Jack Parlabane, is indebted to a volatile source and now that debt is being called in, it could cost him everything. Thrown together by a common enemy, Sam and Jack are about to discover they have more in common than they realise - and might be each other's only hope."
"There is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder. Diana Jager’s life crumbles when her details are released on the internet as revenge for her anti-sexism blog. Then she meets Peter. Within six months, they are married. Within six more, Peter is dead in a road accident; a nightmare end to their fairy-tale romance. But Peter's sister Lucy doesn't believe in fairy-tales, tasking maverick reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling ‘Black Widow.’"
"Civil servant Kendra has spent her whole life struggling against the Etonian powers-that-be. So when she realises her boss is up to no good, she turns whistleblower, calling a journalist who is looking for a way to fight back himself. Jack Parlabane is a hack who will go to desperate lengths for a good story. Reduced to peddling PR puff pieces, he is delighted when Kendra's information threatens to blow up a national corruption case. But Parlabane soon realises this story might prove dangerous to both of them."
"Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is true. Where it differs from the fairy tales is that the room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see behind the mask…"
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