Boiling a Frog
9 best books like Boiling a Frog (Christopher Brookmyre): Dead Souls, Complicity, Cider With Roadies, The Fanatic, Divorcing Jack, Buenos Aires Quintet, Black Butterfly, The Long Glasgow Kiss, Dead White Female
When an author is successful as Rankin has been with his tough and idiomatic Scottish thrillers, a problem sets in after several books: how to keep the formula fresh. Rankin has delivered a powerful series of books featuring his beleaguered Detective Inspector John Rebus, and while never less than...
Author | Iain Banks |
ISBN | 0349105715 |
COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act.
Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO - he commits brutal murders on behalf of the underdog. As the two...
Author | Stuart Maconie |
ISBN | 0091897459 |
Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework...
Author | James Robertson |
ISBN | 1841151890 |
An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice – a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland.
It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh. Andrew Carlin is the perfect candidate. So, with cape, stick and...
Author | Colin Bateman |
ISBN | 1559703598 |
More black comedy than true Irish noir, Divorcing Jack is my first foray into Colin Bateman. Based on first impressions I believe I will read more of his books, even if this one did not deliver on all fronts. I am already familiar with several flavors of noir : classic 1940's West Coast, East Coast,...
Author | Manuel Vázquez Montalbán |
ISBN | 1852427833 |
Pepe Carvalho is one of the most fascinating private detectives in a literary world stuffed full of eccentric detectives. For one thing he was a communist, and he worked for the CIA, and he describes himself an anarchist. He is also a gourmet cook and his recipes fill the books. (Apparently there is a spin-off...
Author | Mark Gatiss |
ISBN | 0743257111 |
DNF three chapters in. I remember enjoying the first in this series though I now can't imagine why. Lots of 'is it really misogynist if I do it with lots of irony'. (Yes. Yes, it is.) Also there's a fine line between parodying racist colonialist sexist pulp and seeming like you just really want to write it....
Author | Craig Russell |
ISBN | 1847249698 |
Glasgow in the 1950s - not somewhere you'd choose to be unless you were born to it. Yet Lennox, a private investigator, finds it oddly congenial. Lennox is a man balanced between the law and those who break it - a dangerous place where only the toughest and most ruthless survive. Glasgow bookie and greyhound...
Author | Lauren Henderson |
ISBN | 0099415135 |
I started reading this booking thinking a little lowly of Sam Johnes. She had this air of confidence that just about killed my every intention of truly liking her, because it seemed a little forced, and thus not real.
But as I read on, she grew on me. Sam Johnes is the sort of character that turns...