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

AuthorIan Rankin
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...
AuthorIain Banks
ISBN0349105715
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...
AuthorStuart Maconie
ISBN0091897459
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...
AuthorJames Robertson
ISBN1841151890
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...
AuthorColin Bateman
ISBN1559703598

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,...
AuthorManuel Vázquez Montalbán
ISBN1852427833
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...
AuthorMark Gatiss
ISBN0743257111
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....
AuthorCraig Russell
ISBN1847249698
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...
AuthorLauren Henderson
ISBN0099415135
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...
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