Christopher Brookmyre's Quite Ugly One Morning is the raucous comic thriller that established the author's reputation for a scabrously humorous style and breakneck, hell-for-leather narrative pacing. When hard-partying, wisecracking investigative journalist Jack Parlabane stumbles across the corpse of the scion of a wealthy Edinburgh medical family, he's determined to get to the bottom of things on his own. He quickly becomes enmeshed in a rousing adventure that will take him through all the strata of contemporary Scottish society – and into some dangerous (and hysterical) situations. Laced with acerbic wit and crackling dialogue, Quite Ugly One Morning is a wildly entertaining and vivacious thriller.
"A lean, nasty, fun little page-turner . . . In a thriller, an implausible scene of a cartoonish character can be annoying - but dullness is unforgivable. Brookmyre's universe is not dull."
Rob Walker, New York Times Book Review
"Delightfully entertaining . . . . Quite Ugly One Morning starts out with a bang and it is quite ugly."
