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  • ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEBODY LOSES AN EYE
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    This prize-winning comic thriller takes readers "from high-octane gun antics to kitchen mopping in East Kilbride . . . [in] one beast of a story" ( The Guardian, UK).   International bestselling author Christopher Brookmyre has been lauded for his dark sense of humor and brilliant suspense plotting. Now his Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize–winning novel follows "his most ambi...

    $229.00

  • QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    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).   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 nau...

    $229.00

  • THE LAST HACK
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    The Scottish crime master dishes out "equal parts adrenaline and empathy" in a thriller featuring a woman hacker and online intrigue (Diana Gabaldon).   Sam Morpeth has had to grow up way too fast. Left to fend for a younger sister with learning difficulties when their mother goes to prison, she is forced to watch her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to...

    $229.00

  • BLACK WIDOW
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    A "hair-raising . . . devilishly complicated mystery" from the Scottish crime master. " Don't even try to guess the outcome" ( The New York Times Book Review ).   Diana Jager is clever, strong, and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism in medicine. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on t...

    $229.00

  • DEAD GIRL WALKING
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year: From Berlin to Barcelona, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and murder make for "tantalizing . . . fantastic thriller fare" ( Booklist).   Celebrated, beautiful, and talented, rock star Heike Gunn had everything . . . right up until she vanished. Meanwhile, Scottish journalist Jack Parlabane just watched his career and marriage vanish, along with ...

    $229.00

  • BRED IN THE BONE
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    "Gangland violence explodes off the page" as two female detectives cross paths in Scotland's criminal underworld ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Glasgow Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod has one gangster in the mortuary and another, Glen Fallan, behind bars for allegedly taking him out. But fighting for conviction isn't going to be easy. This case may be more pe...

    $212.00

  • WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    From " one of the funniest, savviest crime writers around" comes a midsummer night's murder mystery that sets its scene in Scotland ( The Independent).   For actress-turned-private investigator Jasmine Sharp, finding long-lost relatives for clients is a standard routine. But when a woman hires Jasmine to find her missing sister, the case draws her back into the world of profess...

    $179.00

  • WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    The murder of a small-time Scottish hoodlum makes big trouble for two Glasgow detectives in a thriller that'll "wake up crime fiction readers everywhere" (Val McDermid).   When a neighborhood heroin dealer turns up dead one fine morning in Scotland, no one is too surprised. Sleeping with a major drug trafficker's girlfriend can bring around plenty of enemies. It's no wonder tha...

    $179.00

  • NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    Death threats rock a Hollywood film festival in a thriller that reads like " Day of the Locust updated and rewritten by Carl Hiaasen" ( Kirkus Reviews).   After a family tragedy, LAPD cop Larry Freeman gets back to work with what he thinks is a simple assignment: Keep a rabid group of right-wing evangelical protestors as far as possible from a celluloid celebration of ex—and ve...

    $149.00

  • ONE FINE DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    " Pulp Fiction meets  And Then There Were None" in this comic mystery set during a high school reunion off the coast of Scotland ( Booklist).   Gavin Hutchison has a plan to create a unique "floating holiday experience" on a converted North Sea oil rig. It'll be a haven for tourists who want a vacation without the hassle of actually going anywhere. And what better way to test o...

    $149.00

  • COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
    CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
    The murder of a controversial Scottish media mogul ignites "a high-octane political thriller doused in stinging satire" ( The Sunday Times).   Just when left-leaning journalist Jack Parlabane trades in his muckraking career for domestic quietude, the muck comes calling. Conservative tabloid tycoon Roland Voss, his wife, and their two ineffectual bodyguards have been found murde...

    $179.00