Description

Quite Ugly One Day may be the book that created Christopher Brookmyre a celebrity in his native Britain, creating his unique, scabrously funny design and breakneck, hell-for-leather story pacing. The novel that won the inaugural First Blood Prize for the very best debut crime novel in the Uk has become obtainable in America for the first time, and witty crime publishing with this side of the Atlantic might never function as the same. Quite Ugly One Day presents Brookmyre's trademark character, the hard-partying, wise-cracking investigative journalist Jack Parlabane, who's not afraid to extend the laws of the property (and on occasion even the laws of gravity) to make the journey to the reality. Parlabane is nursing a terrible hangover when he stumbles over the corpse of the scion of the rich Edinburgh medical household.