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Quite Ugly One Morning von Christopher…
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Quite Ugly One Morning (Original 1996; 2004. Auflage)

von Christopher Brookmyre

Reihen: Jack Parlabane (1)

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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? A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited.… (mehr)
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Titel:Quite Ugly One Morning
Autoren:Christopher Brookmyre
Info:Abacus (2004), Edition: Television tie-in edition, Paperback, 320 pages
Sammlungen:Deine Bibliothek
Bewertung:****
Tags:humour, satire

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Quite Ugly One Morning von Christopher Brookmyre (1996)

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    Eine Nonne war sie nicht. von Colin Bateman (Aula)
    Aula: Both series are fast-paced, with sarcastic and snappy dialogue; both authors portray (journalist) protagonists with real character (and quite a bit of violence).
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This novel introduced Jack Parlabane, who joined the ranks of Tartan Noir with quite a bang. On the run from a hit man in Los Angeles, where he had been working as an investigative journalist looking into financial crime, Parlabane returns to his native Scotland, and takes refuge in an Edinburgh apartment loaned to him by a friend. His timing is not great as while he is struggling to recover from the combined onslaught of a monster hangover and major jetlag, someone is murdered in the flat below. Still disoriented, Parlabane wanders out to see if he can borrow aspirin or something similar (and preferably much stronger) from a neighbour, and inadvertently locks himself out. Seeing that the door of one of the other flats is open, he wanders in, and finds himself in a particularly messy crime scene, with the resident murdered and the flat in mayhem. Just as he is attempting to climb through the widow back to his own flat, he is apprehended by the police, and taken in for questioning.

After such a spectacular and gripping start, the novel goes from strength to strength. I have always had a strong liking for any books set in Edinburgh, and this is a worthy addition to that already large genre. The plot is too convoluted for me to attempt a worthwhile synopsis, but it gripped me from the beginning, and never let go.

There is a strong element of the grotesque throughout the novel, although this does not detract from a very sound story. ( )
  Eyejaybee | Aug 29, 2023 |
Enjoyed it very much but not to the point where I'm going to read everything Brookmyre has written..It was fun and an easy, fast read. ( )
  Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 |
It's been so long since I read a Parlabane book. I've missed him. ( )
  clacksee | Dec 12, 2022 |
I hope the rest of the series is as good as this one, which was fantastic! I relished the black humour, the characters, the Edinburgh setting, even the opening scene that was gross in its array of bodily fluids and yet had me laughing out loud. I loved the idiomatic words and phrases too. Thankfully, Brookmyre doesn't shy away from using them. Journalist Jack Parlabane is investigating why he was threatened at his last job in L.A. and had to leave the country, which led him to another story in Scotland. Are they connected? The newly formed National Health Service Trust is diverting money to the executive offices instead of hospitals. And diverting bodies too... ( )
  VivienneR | Nov 16, 2022 |
What an entertaining read! Reminds me of when my father went into the hospital for the last time and the ICU dr said why bother, he's going to die anyway. Or words scarcely cloaked to that effect. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
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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? A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited.

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