Quite Ugly One Evening

Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite Ugly One Morning, which established him as one of Britain's leading crime writers. His 2006 novel All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye won the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize, and his 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. He also co-writes historical crime fiction with his wife, Marisa Haetzman, under the pen name Ambrose Parry..

Quite Ugly One Evening is incredible. So many beautifully plotted twists and turns and a magnificent dissection of the whole tedious culture war. It would be a wonderful ending for Parlabane but I really hope it isn't as I'd miss him massively.