Black Widow - Jack Parlabane (Paperback)

A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing * Ian Rankin *
Black Widow is a stand-out thriller, reminiscent of the best of Nordic Noir but with its own vivid landscape * Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer *
Brookmyre opens with a dramatic court scene, followed by a series of clever twists that challenge the reader to work out who is the victim of an extremely sophisticated crime * Sunday Times *
Exceptionally good - a knotty mystery that's not just richly, provocatively political but one of the most perceptive excavations of a dysfunctional marriage I can remember reading.... Brookmyre plays a cunning, careful game * Guardian *
I didn't know what was going to happen next in this epic thriller. I urge you to read it, too * Sun *
It's a tour de force. It's such an important book, with fantastic characters - a really strong novel ... It keeps us guessing not just who did it, but why they did it, and cements Chris's place in the pantheon of great crime writers. * Elly Griffiths *
The story's characters are compelling and the mystery is evoked with scalpel-like precision * Daily Mail *
This is mystery plotting at its highest level, all the disparate strands forming into a web and then into a knot that tightens around victim, detective and reader * Spectator *
It's only as you're racing through the final tense pages, full of betrayal, revenge and shocking revelations, that you realise the brilliance behind the construction of this utterly compulsive, whipsmart thriller * Sunday Mirror *
A gripping, complex and classy crime novel. * Mail on Sunday YOU Magazine *
Chilling, gripping and exquisitely unpredictable * Daily Record *
Black Widow does its best to evade you at every turn, demanding your full attention * Scotland on Sunday *
Chris Brookmyre has some claim to be the leading satirical novelist currently at work in Britain * Daily Telegraph *
Enthralling and entertaining * Daily Express *
A biting satire, nuanced enough to avoid polemic * Sunday Telegraph *
A briskly paced thriller with a sense of confident contemporary relevance * The List *
Chris Brookmyre does an exceptionally good job . . . making sense of a narrative in which truth and lies are inextricably entwined. The more I read, the more I was hooked * Crime Review *
Black Widow is a stand-out thriller, reminiscent of the best of Nordic Noir but with its own vivid landscape * Renee Knight (author of Disclaimer) *
Tense, intense and quite, quite brilliant * Jenny Colgan *
Has all the verbal and narrative energy of his best work. A pleasing mix of old and new, its country-hopping plot looks back to Grahame Greene and John Buchan, but the pop and media references are bang up-to-date -- John Dugdale * Sunday Times *
One of Brookmyre's most accomplished books... razor sharp * The Big Issue *
'Brookmyre writes beautifully and describes an unfamiliar world vividly and credibly... I was hooked' -- Jessica Mann * Literary Review *