Published by: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349138701
Private investigator Jasmine Sharp should have wanted him dead. Yet somehow, Jasmine bonded with Glen Fallan, the man who killed her father before she was born. Now he has been arrested for the murder of a local gangster, and Jasmine must finally enter his violent domain to seek answers.
. . . . a second will break them apart
Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod is in fear for her life. When she discovers a symbol daubed on the head of Fallan’s alleged victim, it unearths secrets that will threaten everything Catherine holds dear.
One murder. Two women. A lifetime of lies revealed.
 | Christopher BrookmyreChristopher Brookmyre was born in Glasgow in 1968 and educated at Glasgow University, where he earned an MA (Hons) in English and Theatre. He worked as a sub-editor in London and Edinburgh prior to the publication of his first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning, which won the First Blood Award in 1996 for the best first crime novel of the year. Eighteen further novels followed, garnering him two Sherlock awards and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing in 2006. In 2005 he was named Glasgow University Young Alumnus of the Year and in 2007 he won the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for writing. He collaborated with Brighton-based indie developers RedBedlam to create the Bedlam video-game, developed in parallel with the novel of the same name. His latest novel is Black Widow. |
